Gellhaus v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

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• finding that although the record did not disclose how much of her time was spent on managerial tasks, the record strongly suggested that more than half of her time was devoted to clearly managerial tasks in order to satisfy the executive exemption
• plaintiff satisfied fourth element of executive exemption test because “several of her subordinates received pay raises based in part on [plaintiff’s] review of their performance”
• “[S]ome of her recommendations regarding hiring and changes in employee status were followed, as several of her subordinates received pay raises based in part on Gellhaus’s review of their performance.”
• “[T]here is often a hierarchy in any organization wherein supervisors have persons to whom they must report, and the fact that an individual does not have final supervisory authority does not take that person out of the realm of being a manager in the organization.”

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